RENEGADE CHAMBERLAIN
HIS FINE FOE, LIEEU lb waa announced some Htite time ago that the MotorLcHM Pon-G-ennan Herr Houston Stewart Von Chamberlain had been fined £25 for libelling the ' Frankfurter geitunsj.' The of this paper containing the judgment to now to hand (vfzites the London 'Daily Express'), and scora Interesting (Details can be gathered about thia trial. Hear Gbamberlajiii'a libellous &tatKstae.u±a weco to tiia effect that the paper—(l) i 3 advocating an un-Gorman policy, aiming? at tho establishment of Eoglatwifß dominatkua and the humiliation of Germany, tbo paprar'a interests being identical ■with those of Anglo-American finance; end (2) that there ara direct pounedtiojis between tbe paper and tSo British G&vernineaiit, the paper being owned by tiio The Court found that there was not a vestige of fpounii fox any of thes® ohojiges. Jjcl titpl&it#&g the lftuiernoy of tl'-e fjentenae, the presiding Jadga spoke the foUtm-lug woroJa of Triod'Ota: —" Bom of English •panemts, broaig-hA up i« a British admiral's notreo, aFberwastfe fasaJnafcod by tbo Germon fpiilt in Wagner's circle of friends, ChamberfidtiJi has developed ■a-p«sonaUly whioh op*aiy p-roel&fcaa its hostility to it f<WTtt»rlj wcadiipped. AJfl. senilinaenffi having 'earned into 4h«r ©pjmrks, it is natural that (iho tt»iw <M?»™jdoifl» ffhouldi lead to exaggerations. Thte » ®tt fn fswr of a man whom, peopfy, tea'.iidteff the ' Kfrtuikfurter Zertmusf,' avo in tins baMt of calling a ienoga.de. A (}ermao ootrrb need net. fear the reproach of bending tbo knee to England if it states tliat. Oharftberiain's extraoftoa cMaßSatuiwa to? him, sot jyj aggravating, bitt an extenuating circumstance. Moreover, thta Jud|ge added, political pasbscch aro nowadays running very hifh in Germany, and no on* 'nidiyTEual, bat tJ)* pub'Jo as a whore, is responsible. As, lastly, tiio Xibarafe themr'etves ara opposed to thfl penalty of imprisonment in case of first offer-dors, Hrar Chamberlain is to b© mi off
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Evening Star, Issue 16910, 6 December 1918, Page 8
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301RENEGADE CHAMBERLAIN Evening Star, Issue 16910, 6 December 1918, Page 8
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